just in case you have ditched windows but still want to have a bootable ISO usb key some time from Mint, synaptic has a great program call usb-creator with an option for persistant, I made my key that way as it was so simply to do

I tried this with Mint 7, but version 7 is not listed as one of the Linux Mint versions this will work with. Will that cause problems? Has anyone managed to create a bootable liveUSB with Mint 7? I don't need it to be persistent, just bootable to I can check if it recognizes my wifi adapter and if it does I want to install from it.

Thanks!

EDIT:Tested it just a moment ago, and it works. I picked Mint-7 in the version list, then pointed UNetbootin to the 7 ISO on my desktop, and let it do its thing, then plugged it in and rebooted. Presto! I'm in Mint!

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I still have difficulty to make LiveUSB for LinuxMint 7. I used Kingstone flash disc 1 GB and formatted at FAT16

I have tried Unetbootin to make LiveUSB, but it is still fail. (my flash disc was formatted at FAT32)it said "Boot: error" I already follow the step by step instruction from this forum

then I use usb-creator, but it still fail also. (my flash disc was formatted at FAT16)my LinuxMint 7 still can not booting.it said "could not find kernel ..." ( I am sorry I forgot the detail message)"Boot: "

do anyone can help me to find out the solution for this situation and give me the detail procedure?because I want to use LinuxMint 7 as LiveUSB.

Fluke: Here's what I did when I used pendrivelinux to install Mint 8 on my netbook. It installed a user "oem" that would automatically log me in to that user so I had to create an identical user and then go to Administration/Login Screen in the Mint Menu. After unlocking that, you just check the radio box to "Show the screen for choosing who will log in." That's all I had to do! Of course, you don't necessarily have to create a new user account, you just have to enable the login screen.

I'm running from a linux USB at the moment using Julia (Mint Linux). I'm using a Kingston 2Gig Data Traveller – that boots from a livecd image that keeps all bookmarks, web history, installed programs etc automatically, to save and restore changes on subsequent boots; in a 1 Gig file.

Computer default os is XPpro – Linux is not installed.Using the latest iso (linuxmint-10-gnome-cd-i386.iso) or newer CD/DVD drive is dead on this computer.

Pendrive linux's multiboot utility may lag a little behind releases of ISO's naturally, so that you may have to wait for the next release of the utility to convert your iso to usb boot. THIS IS AN UNDERSTATMENT. I presume that the util database is updated by hand and is not that clever, so that it doesn't automatically change its config for the newer ISOs – you just cant change the name of the ISO.

Good tut. I found unetbootin didn't format the usb with a boot flag ( I spent a lot of time waiting for it to load before I figured that out) Easy way is to open the usb in gparted and manage the flags in there.

To expand a bit:You can create a personalized & updated LiveUSB & DVD Mint image by:1) Install a Mint Live DVD to a drive2) Update it using Update Manager3) Use Synaptics to install the additional packages you want and delete packages you don't want4) Use Remastersys to create a live iso distribution image5) Use Unetbootin to install the Remastersys image to a USB drive

After you've made your Unetbootin USB drive, you'll need to do two things: first, you've got to create a casper-rw file on the USB. That's the file that will hold all the changes. It's what makes a persistent install persistent. After that, you'll need to amend the syslinux.cfg file on the USB to include the persistent designation. The syslinux.cfg file is the boot file; if when you boot, you haven't specified that you're booting a persistent system, then the system won't use the casper-rw file.

In order to alter the USB drive, you should not boot into it. Instead, boot into another system and mount the USB drive so that you can save to it.(continued...)

I used UNETbootin to install to a LiveUSB with partial persistence. Someone taught me how to edit the syslinux.cfg file so that it would present boot options for both persistent and live.

For persistence to hold, do I also have to edit the casper-rw file, as you describe above, or is this information out-of-date, from before UNETbootin offerred persistence as an option (which it does indeed offer now)?

Someone suggested I might have to also edit the isolinux.csg file... is that truly necessary? What does the isolinux.csg file contain or do? Thanks

My desktop PC uses Windows XP Pro. I attempted to use UNetbootin to create a bootable 4 GB USB flash drive for Linuxmint Petra 16 Mate to evaluate Linux for installation on an IBM Thinkpad laptop which has no OS. The procedure seemed to go without any problem but when I inserted the USB drive in my Desktop PC and changed the boot menu to USB I received the message "boot error". Any recommendations? Thank you.

I have a terabyte external hard drive that I'd like to install the live image onto. But UNetbootin would not let me select the external. After I used a command line switch to let me pick the drive letter, it still wouldn't work. How do I install the live image onto an external hard drive?